SMH did something I never thought would happen: called rape, rape.
Here is an example of an article written properly. They call it rape. They call it sexual assault. They don’t blame the victim. They do mention she was unconscious from drinking alcohol, but I can’t sense the disapproval.
On another note, this is exactly what I was [...]
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Credit where it’s due
Posted in Rapists, abuse, feminism, men hate you, smh on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Smh roundup
Posted in Rapists, feminism, men hate you, smh on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today I noticed that the number of articles waiting to be mercilessly blogged in my favourites has increased to the point where it would be time consuming to do separate posts. So, today is the first ever whyimbitter smh roundup. Hopefully there’ll be more, but I may just give up on the paper before we [...]
“War on Drugs”
Posted in idiots, smh on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is what happens when you have a war on drugs.
This 17 year old was more worried about the consequences of being caught with three tablets in her possession than she was about the effects taking all three at once would have. She died because we’d rather prosecute users than deal with the underlying social [...]
smh gets it VERY wrong
Posted in Rapists, abuse, arsehats, men hate you, smh, tagged abuse, arsehats, men hate you, Rapists, smh on January 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dear Reporters at smh (specifically, Chris Johnston and his editors, but y’all can feel free to pay attention),
When you are reporting on the rape of a child that spanned four years of her life, starting at age 14, it is NOT, under any circumstances whatsoever, ok to report it as a ’sexual relationship’.
It is rape. [...]
More from smh
Posted in feminism, smh, tagged smh on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m glad she was acquitted. I wish they hadn’t identified her as a ‘mother of six’ before anything else. Our media has a long way to go to realise that mothers are also humans, and that if they’re not going to identify men by their kids in the first sentence, women shouldn’t be either. This [...]
Childcare
Posted in smh, tagged smh on September 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This is crap.
“I don’t know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work,” she said.
Really Mem Fox? You have no idea why this might happen? REALLY??? You are so wrapped up in your privileged world that you have NO IDEA why some people [...]
Oh Gloria Jeans
Posted in arsehats, church, smh, tagged arsehats, smh on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Starbucks is closing down most of its Australian stores. This is not overly newsworthy, although I will miss the chocolate frappucinos. They are awesome.
However in this article the manager of one of the Gloria Jeans stores says that
he did not expect his business to benefit from the closure of the nearby Starbucks [...]
Major Newspaper gets it right (almost)
Posted in exploitation, smh, tagged exploitation, PETA, smh on July 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
for once.
An article discussing PETA’s misogynistic tactics. It doesn’t condemn the sexism enough for my taste, but it is a mainstream newspaper.
At this point I’ll take what I can get.
Gang Rape and the Patriarchy
Posted in Rapists, smh, tagged Rapists, smh on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If this doesn’t make you even slightly bitter, you will never understand why I am.
Convicted rapist Bilal Skaf claims his name is so synonymous with a Sydney gang sex crime he will never be able to get a fair trial.
Wow. Don’t we all feel sorry for the poor rapist whose name is now associated [...]
